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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Illinois’ SB7 gets presented to our teachers. « Fred Klonsky

Illinois’ SB7 gets presented to our teachers. « Fred Klonsky:

Illinois’ SB7 gets presented to our teachers.

I went to a meeting after school yesterday.

Power point.

The purpose of the meeting was to update us on the implementation of Senate Bill 7 in our district.

Because we are a high performing district we do not have to change our present evaluation system until 2016.

Except.

Except we have to change our present three levels to four. At the present time we have something like “excellent,” “satisfactory,” and “unsatisfactory.” We have to add something like “needs improvement.” Okay. No big deal.

We needed legislation for that?

We have to group teachers into four groups for the purpose of laying them off. Like non-tenured are in group one